© Reuters. South Korean actor Lee Solar-kyun arrives at a police station for questioning relating to his alleged unlawful drug use in Incheon, South Korea, December 23, 2023. Yonhap by way of REUTERS
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By Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi
SEOUL (Reuters) -Lee Solar-kyun, a South Korean actor who drew international consideration together with his efficiency as the rich patriarch within the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite”, was discovered useless on Wednesday in an obvious suicide in a Seoul park, officers within the capital stated.
Lee, 48, who met a gory finish within the 2019 movie, South Korea’s first to win any Oscar, had confronted police questioning thrice over accusations of unlawful drug use amid a authorities crackdown, with one session working 19 hours over the weekend.
The actor had stated he was tricked into taking medication by a bar hostess making an attempt to blackmail him, the Yonhap information company reported.
Authorities discovered Lee in a search triggered by a lacking particular person report, a hearth official instructed Reuters on situation of anonymity, because the matter is a delicate one.
Lee was present in a automotive at a park in Seoul, after his supervisor instructed police the actor had left dwelling, forsaking an obvious suicide notice, a police official stated, talking on situation of anonymity.
Lee’s company, HODU&U Leisure, didn’t reply to calls.
Nonetheless, home media cited an announcement by the company that expressed unhappiness on the loss of life, whereas urging restraint relating to false info, hypothesis, or malicious reviews.
Infringements of South Korea’s robust drug legal guidelines can result in six months in jail, or as much as 14 years for repeat offenders and sellers.
A dark-comedy thriller directed by Bong Joon-ho, “Parasite” received the Academy Award in 2020 within the 4 classes of finest image, finest director, finest authentic screenplay and finest worldwide function movie, off six Oscar nominations.
The movie turned the primary non-English language film to win the perfect image award. Bong hailed its recognition as an indication that the “one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles” was not a stumbling block to international success.
Within the movie, Lee performed the character of Mr Park, whose prosperous house is infiltrated by members of a lower-class household posing as extremely certified home staff in a tangled scheme that ends in violence.
Lee, born in 1975, had main roles in South Korean movies such because the 2012 thriller “Helpless” and 2014’s “All About My Wife”, in addition to the acclaimed 2018 TV sequence “My Mister”.
He performed the lead in Apple (NASDAQ:) TV+’s first Korean-language authentic sequence, rolled out in 2021.
A six-episode sci-fi thriller, “Dr. Brain” featured a cold-hearted neurologist trying to find clues to a mysterious household accident by mind experiments.
Lee’s spouse is award-winning actress Jeon Hye-jin, and the couple had two kids.